Dear Parents:
We appreciate your assistance with the following COVID-19 protocols designed to keep your families, and all students and staff healthy.
Update Contact Information: Please check your phone numbers to ensure the district has the most up to date contact information on Power School.
Pick-up Plan: If your child becomes ill during the school day, please be readily available to pick up your child or have a pickup plan in place with a designated person.
COVID-19 Vaccine Documentation: If your child has been vaccinated for COVID-19, please submit a copy of the documentation to your school’s nursing staff. If vaccinated, your child will be exempt from quarantines if they are designated as a close contact of a person who tests positive.
Observe your child for symptoms of illness every day.
Key COVID-19 Symptoms: Feeling feverish, Measured temperature of 100.4 or higher, Chills, Uncontrolled new cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, loss of taste or smell
For those students presenting with Key COVID-19 symptoms, a referral to their healthcare provider and the State of CT DPH Addendum 5 directives will apply.
Students should stay home from school when they do not feel well.
For those students presenting with symptoms of illness that are not listed as Key COVID-19 Symptoms, please follow the guide, When Your Child is Ill for information about keeping your child home from school and returning to school.
Quarantine Information: Quarantine keeps someone who might have been exposed to the virus away from others. Isolation keeps someone who is infected with the virus away from others, even in their home.
Quarantine & Isolation
Notify your school nurse: If your child is going to be absent
If your child had close contact to a person diagnosed with COVID-19.
If your child has tested positive for COVID-19.
Contact your health care provider and follow local health department guidance. Contact your school nurse before returning your child to school.
Travel Advisory: Please check the CDC for the most current Travel information:
Current Travel Information
